Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1887-08-09
Application for . Patent.
Notice No. IA.
UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
Boise CITY. Idaho, June 81, 1887.


Notice Is hereby given that the Elmira
Silver Mining Com psny, by John Brown
lis President aud General Manager, whose
posi- Office address Is Banner, Boise coun
ty, Idaho territory, has made application
for United States patent for the Banner
lode mining claim and mill site, situated
In Banner Mining District, Boise County
Idaho Territory, consisting of fifteen hun.
bred $500 linear feet Of the lode, and sur.
face ground six hundred (6O0) feet wide,
being Lot No. 81 A and acres Of non.
mineral land not contiguous to said lode,
for mill site, being Lot No. 80 b, and
described In the field notes and plat OF the
official survey on file in this office, with
magnetic variation at 10 degrees and 80
minutes East as follows, In effect substan.
TALLY and correctly:
Said mining claim commencing at the
stake or post on which is posted the no
tice of relocation, at point 100 feet in q
westerly direction from the shat sunk on
said lode, known as the old Banner SHAFT
or discovery shalt and running thence in
an easterly direction 1900 feet to similar
stake or post on the line of said lode,
marked EAST Center Stake" together
with 900 feet In width the entire length OF
said claim, being 500 feet in width on each
side from the center or middle of said
lode at the surface. Said surface ground
being marked and described as follows. IN
effect; Commencing at point $3.50 feet
from United States mineral monument
No. l, in direction north 81 degrees, 06
minutes east therefrom, the property be-
ing on unsurveyed land-being cor No.
l, running thence south IA degrees, 04
minutes east 900 feet to post marked
IS. w. being cor. No. Q, and passing
through, at a distance Of 800 feet from the
original starting point, the west end cen.
ter post or stake on which Ia posted the
original notice Of relocation by the El-
mira silver Mining Company, thence
north II degrees % minutes east 1900 feet
to post marked 49, E." being cor No.
8. thence north IA degrees, o. minutes
west, across the east end center post or
stake 600 feet to post marked IN. E.
being cor. No. 4, thence south II degrees
% minutes west 1900 feet to post mark.
ed an. W." which Is the place of begin.
ming, containing an area of 20 5000
acres. This location also covers and In.
eludes what Is known rs the Big Crop.
pings, and said mine or Banner lode be-
ing situated about thirty miles IN a north
easterly direction from Idaho City, and
about one mile in a northeasterly direc.
ton from the steam quartz mill owned by
the Elmira Silver Mining Company. AL.
so the MILL SIRE on which stands the
Banner mill, and known as the Banner
mill site. located In triangular shape,
immediately above what was formerly
called Wolverine Gulch, and Smiths
Fork, and between them, described AS fol.
lows; Beginning at point 1896 fee,
from United States mineral monument
No. l, In direction therefrom south 80
deg. 81 minutes east thence running south
20 degrees, 10 minutes east, 57i.5 feet To q
post, cor. No. 4, thence north 50 degrees,
o3 minutes west 700 feet 10 post al the
junction Of the right fork of Bear creek
with the main creek, cor. No. l. running
thence north IS degrees 53 minutes east
40 feet 10 post, cor. No. 2, thence north
" degrees east 1853 feet to post, cor No
3, which Is the place OF beginning; EN-.
bracing an area OF five acres. The north
line Of said mill site being 3,950.7 feet dis
tant from the northwest corner, or cor
No. OF said Lot No. 81 A, the Banner
lode surface ground, In q direction south
SO degrees 10 minutes 80 seconds west
theretrom; ali corners Of clam being al
50 marked U. 8. L. 81 A, and all corners
Of mill site marked u s. L. 81 B. In addi
ton 20 No. Of corner
The said mining claim and mill site be
ing OF record in the office Of the Count,
Recorder Of said mining district. at Idaho
City, in Boise County, Idaho Territory
The nearest known location being the Sill
yer Chief lode or claim, which joins tn,
SAID Banner lode and claim on the west.
Any aud all persons claiming advcrsel,
any portion OF the said Banner lode min
ing claim or surface ground, or the mil
site Aforesaid, are required to file their ad
verse claims thereto with the Register O
the United States Land Office, at Bots,
City, Idaho Territory, within the sixt,
days publication hereof or they will b.
barred BY virtue Of the provisions Of tn